PHOTOGRAPHER'S JOURNAL:
SnapshotIt is a silken circusbespindled and bebobbinedof Victorian, industrial clatter.to capture the whole, 3-ring show-silken filament streakingbobbins bobbing,flywheels winging,and the steam calliope!and to also eyeball every sprocket,savor the nattering and shuttlingof the tiniest cogin the unbroken linkagebetween initial causeintermediate eventand ultimate purpose,and to show it in a photograph.
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Out of curiosity, Ted, so much of your images look like the real-deal HDR. Is that how you're processing these images? If so, or whatever, I am a real fan of this "look!"
I do less and less HDR all the time. If I can get away without HDR I prefer it. HDR can get a kind of hazy, fuzzy look that I try to avoid, but I do like the extra local contrast that HDR allows. NIK, ColorEffects plug-in has some filters that can get that effect without HDR, but the controls are not especially flexible. The most useful of these is TOnal Contrast. However, Topaz Adjust vers.4 is what I turn to most often. It gives all sorts of control over local contrast, and each image requires very different settings. The same filter is in vers.5, but Topaz had designed it such that after you set one slider and want to move to another, the first disappears. As a result, it is impossible to learn to manually control the program unless you have vers. 4. When I upgraded Photoshop I lost access to vers.4 and complained to Topaz. They sent me a copy of var's 4 even though it was a legacy version.
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